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The Barnes & Noble Nook (styled "nook" or "NOOK") is a brand of electronic-book reader developed by American book retailer Barnes & Noble, based on the Android platform. The original device was announced in the United States in October 2009, and was released the next month. The original Nook includes both Wi-Fi and AT&T; 3G wireless connectivity, a six-inch E Ink display, and a separate, smaller color touchscreen that serves as the primary input device. A Wi-Fi-only model of the original design was released in June 2010. The original line of Nooks was followed in November 2010 by a color LCD device called the Nook Color, in June 2011 by a second-generation E Ink device marketed as the Nook Simple Touch, and in November 2011 and February 2012 by the 16GB and 8GB versions, respectively, of the Wi-Fi only Nook Tablet. On April 30, 2012, Barnes & Noble entered into a partnership with Microsoft that will spin off the Nook and college businesses into a subsidiary.. On August 28th Barnes and...

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Barnes & Noble, Apple and Amazon are all competing in the tablet and ebook markets. The joint venture between Microsoft and Barnes & Noble now has a name: Nook Media LLC. In late April, B&N announced its plans to spin off its digital (Nook) and colle...

The tablet market got another shakeup today, with Barnes & Noble unveiling its new Nooks: the HD and the HD+. They come just a few weeks after Amazon showed off its new Kindle Fire HD line, which set a new standard in tablet value and performance. Bu...

Barnes & Noble just unveiled its latest entry into the tablet wars, the Nook HD+, and it has a lot going for it: a big HD screen, an expanding ecosystem that now includes video and a price that can't be beat. At least, not by its most obvious competi...

Barnes & Noble Tuesday announced its new video service, the aptly named Nook Video. This is a big move for the retailer, whose previous video offerings for its Nook line of tablets were limited to apps from services such as Netflix and Hulu Plus. In ...

Sales of Barnes & Noble's line of tablets and e-readers declined in the company's fiscal 2013 first quarter ending July 28, the bookseller reported Tuesday. Digital content sales increased 46%. That was enough to make up for shrinking income from dev...

Barnes & Noble is slashing prices for its Nook Tablet and Nook Color devices, beginning Monday. With growing competition from rivalling tablets and e-readers, the book retailer announced its "lowest pricing ever" in a statement on Sunday. The 8GB Noo...

NBC is getting into the second screen game with a new interaction companion ebook for its hit drama, Grimm. Grimm: The Essential Guide will give fans entrée to exclusive "behind-the-scenes" content, including concept art, 3D renderings and video clip...

Google took the wraps off the first device to run Android 4.1, Jelly Bean: a 7-inch tablet made by Asus, called the Nexus 7. The pint-sized tablet has a 1280 x 800 display, NVIDIA quad-core Tegra 4 processor, and Google claims the tablet will keep ki...

If you're opting for a relaxing seaside vacation this year, nothing beats lying on the beach or by the pool with a good book. In this era of digital e-book readers, though, this simple act can be fraught with danger. We have found eight excellent cas...

Barnes & Noble posted fiscal fourth-quarter results Tuesday morning. Losses amounted to $57.7 million -- narrower than they were a year ago, but wider than what analysts were expecting. The company's Nook division took a surprising hit. The bookselle...

Although mentioning your competitors' products is a no-no in most advertising campaigns, the latest print ad for Barnes & Nobles's "GlowLight" ereader may be an exception. The ad cheekily tells Amazon's Kindle device that it's "not that good in bed."...

Sometimes you just want to read. Digital’s best answer for that simple urge is the now venerable E Ink e-reader. These monochromatic devices are not only holding on in the face of stiff LCD-based tablet competition, they’re innovating. The latest upd...

In a darkened room, on a bed no less, Barnes & Noble today introduced us to its latest E Ink innovation: in-screen lighting. Called GlowLight, the new integrated, LED-based lighting system on the Nook Simple Touch is a smart and likely welcome idea f...

One in five Americans read an ebook in the past year, according to a 3,000-person survey released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. Of those one in five, 42% said they read an ebook on a computer, making it the most popular device for reading ele...

Although Apple experienced another phenomenal quarter as far as iPad sales go, its overall market share fell from 61.5% in Q3 2011 to 54.7% in Q4 2011, largely due to the success of Amazon's Kindle Fire. According to a new study by IDC, Apple shipped...

Now that the new iPad has been revealed, everyone's chiming in on whether it's a disappointing incremental upgrade or a fantastic breakthrough. None of that matters to its success, of course. If every single previous iPhone and iPad product launch is...

Cosmopolitan magazine has amassed more than 100,000 paid subscribers to its digital editions, parent company Hearst announced Wednesday. The women's lifestyle glossy first began offering digital subscriptions through Zinio in late 2004. Additional ve...

Lionsgate announced a campaign Wednesday for fans of The Hunger Games to unlock free advanced screenings of the upcoming film by tweeting specific hashtags related to their nearby cities. To generate buzz for the upcoming film, the studio launched th...

Barnes & Noble has reduced the prices of products in its Nook portfolio to position itself better against its chief competitor, Amazon. The new 8 GB Nook Tablet costs $199 (down from $249), which is exactly the same as Amazon's Kindle Fire. The price...

Is Barnes & Noble launching an 8GB Android tablet to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet? The bookseller is planning to release a smaller edition of the Nook Tablet this week, if a leaked memo from Walmart is to be believed. The memo, obtained b...

I love books, especially old ones. Recently I learned a simple dinner table trick from a 110-year-old magic book. It involves picking up a napkin with both hands and, without releasing either corner, tying the napkin into a knot. Good fun and likely ...

Barnes & Noble's Nook family of tablets experienced record sales during the nine-week holiday period at the end of 2011, the company announced. Color tablets Nook Color and Nook Tablet sold especially well, while the black and white Nook Simple Touch...

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Popular scrabble game Words With Friends is now available for Nook Tablet and Nook Color, with Barnes & Noble promising several more high-profile apps in the near future. Owners of Nook Tablet have had quite a slim choice of apps so far, with even ob...

Mario Armstrong is an Emmy Award winning media personality, digital lifestyle expert, talk show host, and public speaker. He’s teamed up with Staples this holiday season to spread the word about their extensive tech offerings and provide tips for mak...

Ebook sales are expected to generate $9.7 billion worldwide in 2016, more than three times the $3.2 billion the category is expected to generate this year, according to one forecaster. Strong demand for tablets will drive the growth, UK-based Juniper...

It seems ereaders are going to be a hot holiday tech gift this year -- the Tickle Me Elmo for grown-ups, if you will. The space has certainly heated up of late. A market once dominated by the iPad and a few generations of Kindles is starting to rumbl...

Although Amazon goes out of its way to hide all traces of vanilla Android from its new Kindle Fire tablet, it turns out tech-savvy users can still install select third-party Android applications outside the auspices of the Amazon Appstore. These apps...

I hope Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was paying attention to the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet unveiling today. If not, he may not know that B&N CEO William Lynch essentially declared war on Amazon’s soon-to-ship Kindle Fire tablet. It’s not just that the two 7...

Barnes & Noble launched a tablet reader on Monday. The Nook Tablet will rival other tablet readers on the market, including Amazon's newly launched Kindle Fire. The Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet, which will retail for $249 and arrive in stores at the en...

Barnes & Noble will launch a new member of the Nook family of tablets and e-readers, the Nook Tablet, on November 16 for $249, according to leaked presentation slides published by Engadget. Furthermore, the company plans to reduce the price of Nook C...

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